I tend to just follow the terminology based on the source of the show, ie if it was a UK based show I’d say series 01, whereas if it was created in the US of A I’d go for season, as that’s what they call it, for example the video itself says season 06 in the title.

I like that you’ve been a little ironic in this post as well bletchy, good work. Life’s too short to stick at watching one of the most popular tv series in the world, but not so short that you don’t have time to draw attention to people using the term season rather than series!

The Walking Dead is one of the two shows that I look out for with any regularity. I think bletch needs to give it another go, particularly if the end of the first season is where he stopped. Kirkman does tread a lot of familiar ground to Romero. Slow zombies, the humans are the real villains of the piece, etc, etc. You could argue that all the show is doing is extending Romero’s template over a long run. Well, no-one else is managing that, not even Romero.

I must say, that Fear The Walking Dead trailer looks pretty impressive. We’ve never seen much of the outbreak itself. A few flashbacks, a little bit of an infested Atlanta. Seeing everything go off in LA could be very interesting.

George A. Romero gave birth to the modern zombie with 1968’s Night of the Living Dead, and at present the most popular example of that horror subgenre is The Walking Dead. A Romero-directed episode of the AMC series, then, seems like a natural fit....

I enjoyed it and got along to season 4, I think. Not sure it deserves the plaudits it’s getting on here though. It’s entertaining but I can’t say it does much for illuminating the human condition in any way.

It asks what happens to civilised people when civilisation goes out of the window. How many carry those virtues inherently, and how many are simply operating within a civilised framework. What happens to people when you can’t simply order pizza? In a very consumerist society, it asks what happens if all of that goes away. Quite successfully, mostly. Normally, the post apocalypse is just biker gangs in bondage gear.

It asks what happens to civilised people when civilisation goes out of the window. How many carry those virtues inherently, and how many are simply operating within a civilised framework. What happens to people when you can’t simply order pizza? In a very consumerist society, it asks what happens if all of that goes away. Quite successfully, mostly. Normally, the post apocalypse is just biker gangs in bondage gear.

Hmmm…maybe. I haven’t read the graphic novels - maybe they’re a little more nuanced (and interesting) than the TV series. As I said I’ve watched the first 4 seasons - I like it - just not that much.

Unfortunately, whenever anyone bangs on at me to watch a TV series my first response tends to be, ‘Is it as good as The Wire?’. Which admittedly is a pretty high watermark. So, everything else is on a hiding to nothing, really.

Er no. If you considered the TV show to be a PG version of the comic book, you wouldn’t go far wrong. The TV show, grim as it often is, is like a soothing watercolour impression of the comic. It has rarely, if ever, gone as extreme as the comic book source material and they’ve unfailingly stepped away from each of the “really bad” things that happens in the comics. Michonne’s treatment at the hands of the governor is 10x worse, as is her retribution.

I have seen the first two episodes of this, and am quite impressed. One the one hand, it’s really narrow. It’s just about a couple of families as things unfold. On the other, there is some very impressive civilisation disintegration happening on a wider scale. At the end of episode two, I think we’re going to have the beginnings of a group of survivors.

Watched the first 5 now. It’s an interesting storyline but the budget seems even less than the Walking Dead - very little of the large scale action you’d expect in a city of millions. They’ll be making millions that’s for sure.

They were very honest from the beginning of the show’s production by saying that it wasn’t going to be a “guts n glory” type gorefest, but more of a slow burn. I’m really enjoying it, but then again I am a big fan of the normal show so i’m probably biased.

If peeps are wanting action and drama, tune in to Ep 1 of the new series of TWD next Sunday/Monday - big shit’s going down!

^^^^ Agreed. I was reading some reviews online the other day and several people were making loads of comparisions with The Walking Dead and trying to even compare charaters, “is so and so the new Glen”, etc. It’s like they just want a clone of The walking dead, but just with different people. I’m also liking the fact it’s slowly building up and looking at things differently

Titled “Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462,” the 16-part web series follows a group of passengers aboard a commercial airplane during an early outbreak. Throughout the short episodes, viewers will see the plane and the lives of its passengers put in jeopardy, once they discover an infected traveler.

“Flight 462” will debut on Oct. 4 on AMC.com and will then air during two commercial breaks during “The Walking Dead’s” Season 6 premiere on Oct. 11. Following the web series’ premiere, the rest of the episodes, which are each less than one minute long, will bow every Sunday, both online and on TV during the flagship show.